Ask An Industry Expert: Hannah Schofield

...the royalty terms, but also pitching their marketing and editorial plans) until one emerges victorious and signs up the author. It’s very nerve-wracking and exciting for all involved!   And...

Rachel Dove: It Takes A Village

...by HQ Digital, Harper Collins. I feel grateful that my weird and wonderful villagers keep telling me their stories, but the continuity is hard too! You can’t chop and change...

Hints & Tips For New Writers #24

...take nerve since we all know the kind of looks that can get, and they ask arguably the MOST IRRITATING QUESTION IN THE WORLD: When are you going to write...

Ask An Industry Expert: Carrie May

...you so much for talking to us. For more about Carrie and her work: http://www.carriemay.co.uk/ https://www.meiklejohn.co.uk/artist/Carrie_May_ND Instagram: @bonjourcarriemay Twitter: @carriemayartist * Carrie was talking with Susan Leona Fisher (Website: http://www.SLFisherAuthor.co.uk)...

Ask An Industry Expert: Debi Alper

...input at all and have always had at least one trusted beta reader. I should also point out that many of the published alumni of the self-edit course also had...

Ask An Industry Expert: Emily Ruston

...me, the relationship between an author and editor should always be collaborative; after all we are all working to achieve the same goal – getting great books into readers’ hands!...

Marketing & Me By Suzanne Snow

...‘local’ feel to appeal to potential local readers. Anna was a great support leading up to my first online book launch and agreed to act as host, guiding me through...

Joan Hessayon Award 2021 – Meet The Contenders 1

...so grateful for everything they have done to help my career.” Lucy Morris, The Viking Chief’s Marriage Alliance (Mills & Boon Historical) A challenging wife – for a warrior Viking....

Jean Fullerton: Romance Is A Feminist Issue.

...or something else? Why can we not just say ‘I write Romance?’ and have done with it? Well perhaps I can unpack a few reasons why we struggle sometimes to...

The Romantic Novelists’ Association announces exciting new membership categories for aspiring writers

...create a place within the RNA for those members who would normally be on the NWS waiting list. This category is ideal for unpublished writers who have always wanted to...

Sally Malcolm: Austen With A Twist

...a sweet female/female reimagining of Emma, it’s also a question of correcting a historical injustice. “In so many cases, LGBTQ+ people were erased from history books,” she says, “even though...

Jessica Redland: My Path To Selling One Million Books

...of us could work out why things hadn’t taken off for me. I felt like such a failure and started to question whether I could write after all, although I...